Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

31.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene